Jonathan Poletti
1 min readDec 22, 2018

Hey, I love a good error correction- it shows we care! Here I must diverge. Isaac appears just afterward to give his blessing, so the meal of mourning would likely be Abraham. A friend of mine worked through the references to physical ages given in Genesis chapters 21–25. It appears Abraham dies at 175, Isaac is 75 at the time, and Jacob and Esau are 15.

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